Happy Easter 0
Celebrate yourself some Easter bunny hype:
The trouble is that they are wrong. The colourful myths of Eostre and her hare companion, who in some versions is a bird transformed into an egg-laying rabbit, aren’t historically pagan. They are modern fabrications, cludged together in an unresearched assumption of pagan precedence.
The Eostre bunny is like the fairies those little English WWI era girls photographed–made up.
The real Easter Bunny is good enough, thank you.
Read the whole thing, It’s a nice commentary on modern mythology.
Aside:
It’s sort of like those folks who call themselves “Wiccans” and claim to trace their lineage to the Druids.
There’s one small problem with that.
The Druids were either the priests or the wise men (think, tribal elders) of the Celts. No quite knows which.
The Celts had no writing and left no records, What we know of them is based almost exclusively on snippets from the memoirs of the Roman generals who pursued the Celts to conquer and destroy them.
